Published on the occasion of the exhibition Mona Hatoum organised by the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in collaboration with Tate Modern and the Finnish National Gallery / Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 24 June-28 September 2015; Tate Modern, London, 4 May-21 August 2016; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 7 October 2016-26 February 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.

Forewords / Frances Morris, Serge Lasvignes and Bernard Blistène, Leevi Haapala -- Introduction / Clarrie Wallis -- 'Mapping' an oeuvre / Christine Van Assche -- Between spectator and artist: modes of interaction / Guy Brett -- Disbelongings / Patricia Falguières -- The art of displacement of Mona Hatoum's logic of irreconcilables / Edward W. Said -- Mona Hatoum and the paradoxical map of the Mediterranean myth / Bertrand Westphal -- Materials and making / Clarrie Wallis -- Touching the other: a story of corpo-electronic surfaces / Christine Ross -- Boundary crossings: the political postminimalism of Mona Hatoum / Marja Sakari.

Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, artist Mona Hatoum came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in 1975. Her art - whether video, performance, sculpture or installation - is concerned with confrontational themes including violence, oppression and voyeurism, often in reference to the human body; and with the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and horror, desire and revulsion. With 250 colour images covering the whole of Hatoum's oeuvre, this is the essential book on a distinctly powerful voice in contemporary art.